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TIL New Zealand is free from Rabies.
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TIL That Europeans In The Middle Ages Used To Sleep In Two Shifts, Dedicating The Period Between Their 'First Sleep' And 'Second Sleep' To A Range Of Activities
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TIL that in 1523, Christian II of Denmark was succeeded by Frederick I, who was succeeded by Christian III, who was succeeded by Frederick II and so on till 1972, when Queen Margarethe succeeded her father to the Danish throne. For 449 years, the Danish king was either named Christian or Frederick.
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TIL of Snorri Thorfinnsson, an Icelander who was the first child of European descent to be born in the Americas, in the early 11th century. His parents were explorers Thorfinn Karlsefni and Gudrid Thorbjarnardóttir. He is one of the two main figures responsible for the Christianisation of Iceland.
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TIL: Gamers in Antarctica have used 137.4MB of Steam’s bandwidth.
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TIL that in 1847 the wife of Mountain Man John Johnson was killed by a group of Crow Indians which prompted Johnson to embark on a vendetta against the tribe. He supposedly killed and scalped more than 300 Crow Indians and then devoured their livers to avenge the death of his wife.